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Tumblr awards Leo DiCaprio all the (homemade) Oscars
Leonardo DiCaprio may not yet be king of the Academy, but he's still king of the world; and if Tumblr has anything to say about it, the Hollywood legend may soon be bombarded with handmade imitations...
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This dude's Amazon résumé puts yours to shame
You can buy anything you want on Amazon.com—even an experienced Web product manager. That's at least the logic applied by Parisian Philippe Dubost to his latest professional résumé, a four-part...
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The brief wondrous life of @GowanusDolphin
Twitter showed how much it collectively cares about marine mammals on Friday when a PETA-style army of users chastised a parody account set up in the wake of news breaking that there was a dolphin...
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Meet Facebook's grossest "married" couple
Meet Giovanna Plowman. The 15-year-old Buffalo, N.Y. teenager recently became famous on the Internet for posting a YouTube video of her eating her own bloodied tampon. The video was originally posted...
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Hire a lab technician on eBay for 99 cents
Remember that guy who turned his résumé into an Amazon.com product page and earned all sorts of attention and adoration and probably came out of the whole thing with a job—or will quite soon? It looks...
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Pope admits social media is the future of evangelism
The Pope has called for Twitter users to spread the word of Catholicism. The pontiff used his World Communications Day 2013 message to ask devotees to think about how the likes of Twitter and...
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You can no longer pay to pin content on Tumblr
Tumblr's pin feature, which allowed users to literally pin content to the top of every follower’s dashboard for 24 hours, has been disabled. The microblog rolled out the feature in late June as a way...
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4chan hunts down gearheads over highway holdup
A couple of muscle-car maniacs are under investigation by California police and 4chan's auto community after stopping traffic on a busy highway to do some donuts. The antics on California's Interstate...
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Big surprise: People are Vining themselves smoking pot
People sure are going to a lot of effort to share Vines of themselves smoking pot. A peek through tags like #420, #weed, and #pot reveals dozens of people who cut together six-second videos of...
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Who is this crazy lady behind @ConcernedMom420?
So who's this mom out there in Utah who's out there going hog wild on YouTube and Twitter trying to tell everybody to stop smoking weed? Is she a joke or what? How much can her kids not stand her? And...
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Hate speech plagues UK professor after debate show appearance
It’s not every day that Internet trolls are countered by a barrage of Latin poetry, but that’s what happens when you try to start something with Mary Beard. And now, the trolls' message board has been...
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Can Facebook help reveal mental illness?
Facebook is designed to capture the story of our lives. Our friends, important life announcements, our interests, reading habits, and shared viral videos: It’s all there—a digital thumbprint of how we...
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See how your team stacks up on Facebook's NFL map
With the Super Bowl less than a week away, Facebook's Data Science Team has released a slew of fascinating information about football fans on the world's largest social network. The report is largely...
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Beauty queen's identity stolen to sucker guys out of cash
Not even Canadians are immune to catfishing. A woman in Saskatoon is banned from the Internet for six months after admitting she created a fake Facebook profile using pictures of a pageant contestant....
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Wikipedians wage war over capital "I" in new "Star Trek" film
When it comes to world class pedantry, few groups can challenge the prowess of Wikipedians and Star Trek fans. So when the two come together it's little surprise they create a swirling maelstrom of...
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Giant T. Rex rules a California town (and the Internet)
Zombie lawn gnomes are so 2012. Full-sized lawn dinosaurs are the future. Just ask Reddit user sarcasticonomist, whose gigantic Tyrannosaurus rex is Redwood City, California’s, most famous attraction....
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#WeirdWednesday: The strangeness of Steven Soderbergh
Even Academy Award-winning directors are not immune to the charms of Twitter's weirdness.Untilrecently, Steven Soderbergh's Twitter account was largely unknown, despite his work on Traffic and the...
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GitHub code search reveals coding community's hidden bigotry
Just last month, in touting "the hip geeks" who socially engineered the election in President Obama's favor, Slate proclaimed, "The Socially Awkward Do It Better." But while progressive politics are...
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Guy inadvertently posts public YouTube video inviting his fiancée’s best...
We've all been there. You're super excited after getting the go ahead from your fiancée Cynthia to invite her best friend Zoey over for a threeway, so you hastily record a video introducing yourself...
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NFL's "bird teams" unite on Reddit
This Super Bowl Sunday, one particular group of redditors will be rallying the Baltimore Ravens with their unique battle cry: "Ca-Caw! Ca-Caw!" For that, the Ravens can thank the 1,500-plus...
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